Others will be taking a risk for your liberty, that is where it becomes unacceptable.
We live in a society and individual freedoms must be balanced by the responsibilities towards your fellow man.
One thing everyone seems to ignore is those people that have immunity/antibodies and don't actually need a vaccine. Why is that?
As far as I managed to read here and there not even the shot I had protects me from catching or spreading the virus. It only reduces(at least I hope) the damage done when infected even though my age group should be ok-ish even without.
If you do lose the odds and develop an infection, the rates of various outcomes are all better. i.e. very low chance of death or ICU visit, very high chance of no or extremely mild symptoms
People don’t have a good understanding of statistics, of how to treat risk, or of basic disease dynamics.
It is reasonable to believe that having had an existing infection will boost your immunity against future infections and that both vaccines and previous infections will protect you on a diminishing basis, say, for a year or two. (based on existing covid evidence and the behavior of immunity to other coronaviruses which are common in humans which are usually very mild and referred to as a "cold")
We have seen the kind of snowballing effect 1 or 2 infected can cause.
Of course vaccines do not have 100% efficacy rate, but the risk of getting corona and its effects is at least a bit reduced if you get vaccinated.
Reporting is that almost no intensive care patients in the US these days have been vaccinated.
We're not scared of covid-19 because it'll make us feel shitty for a few days, we're scared of it putting people on ventilators or killing them. There is a very strong signal that vaccination makes the rates of severe negative outcomes of infection very very small - down to the levels of many other rarely severe diseases which don't justify significant action.
"Liberty" isn't the freedom to put yourself at risk with no consequences to anyone or anything else.
It is recognizing that there must be, at some point, a prioritization of giving people choices that might impact others.
>individual freedoms must be balanced by the responsibilities
Must be balanced not obliterated by "responsibilities".
>>> It is recognizing that there must be, at some point, a prioritization of giving people choices that might impact others.
There will always be a set of people who prioritize themselves over others and in the case of corona as we have seen it just takes 1 selfish person to start the snowballing effectt.
We are seeing actual Zombie movie tropes playing out in real life coz of this corona pandemic. even if 98% of people get vaccinated, the holdout population maybe enough to incubate and spread new variants.